HBO has taken a little-known historical event and blown it beyond recognition in And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, which premieres on HBO Cable Network at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 7. The ...
Pancho Villa is a 1972 Western movie helmed by Eugenio Martín. The film focuses on the Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa. Pancho along with his companions sets out to raid a US Army weapons depot ...
Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
BERLIN — Serbian helmer Emir Kusturica is preparing to make a biopic about Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The iconoclastic filmmaker, whose last project was a free-wheeling docu about the epic ...
Despite its commercial failure, this 1935 feature, the last installment of Fernando de Fuentes’s trilogy on the Mexican revolution, remained his favorite film. The country’s first big-budget epic, it ...
After 12 years of trying, director Tony Scott is close to getting his wish to turn the Clifford Irving novel “Tom Mix and Pancho Villa” into an epic-sized film. The director is in Mexico scouting ...
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Pancho Villa plays himself in a movie

In an El Paso hotel room on the seventh day of January 1914, Pancho Villa came to terms with a Hollywood studio to make a silent movie.
Jaral de Berrio, Mexico — It was nearly 90 years ago, in the formative years of cinema, when a film crew from the then movie capital of Fort Lee, N.J., descended on a tiny, war-torn Mexican border ...
Raoul Walsh did more than play a young Pancho Villa in the 1914 film “The Life of General Villa” (“A Wild Ride Into Revisionism,” by Chris Kraul, Aug. 3). In 1913, he directed actual battle scenes of ...